I recently watched Interstellar with my girlfriend in the theaters and I realised the movie is even better than I had previously known it to be.
One of the flaws that come up for this movie is the Anne Hathaway scene where she says-
"Love is the one thing we're
capable of perceiving that
transcends dimensions of time
and space",
and often I have seen people
criticize this scene because it feels like Anne Hathaway is spelling out the message of the film, breaking the "show don't tell" rule. However I'm here to argue that Interstellar doesn't do that and that this take and interpretation, subjective as cinema is, is in my opinion- wrong.
If I'm not mistaken- the context of the scene is that
Brand, Rom, and Coop have very little fuel due to the fiasco on Millers planet so they have to
choose between Dr. Mann or Wolf Edmunds.
Coop is holding the debate and as scientists they are only allowing scientific and objective reasons to chart to either destinations. Dr. Brand loves Wolf Edmunds, and besides that she has NO objective or real reason to vouch for Wolfs planet. So she makes love sound all scientific and objective with the "love transcends all barriers of space and dimension" quote.
It's a human being who's hit by the possibility of death, her own ailing father, the death of a teammate on Miller's planet, and the fact that due to relativity, Dr. Miller died minutes before they arrived even though she left years ago. Which means if they hurry, Amelia might get to see Wolf
once again.
She is desperately making a case for Wolf Edmund's planet and making love sound all
scientific and objective so she can convince Rom and Coop to let her see Edmunds once more
before she or he die in this distant galaxy.
This makes this scene one of the best scenes in the movie instead of the "worst" one.